Labour Cllr Gladden also said on Facebook that Daniel Carden, who is hot favourite to become the new MP in Walton on Thursday, “doesn’t give a toss about any of us” and that she is “so glad her political career is near its end.”

Cllr Gladden - who is a councillor in the Walton area - said the comments were made in the “first anger” after she felt Mr Carden had been imposed as the Labour candidate following former Walton MP Steve Rotheram’s announcement that he would leave the seat due to his being elected as Metro Mayor.

A number of local Labour figures were said to be angry after Mayor Joe Anderson was rejected for the Walton nomination in favour of 30-year-old Mr Carden, an assistant to Unite union boss Len McCluskey.

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Several members of the Walton Labour branch resigned their posts after the decision.

Cllr Gladden said that while she is yet to meet Mr Carden in person, she still believes his nomination was a “massive mistake”, adding: “(The comment) was said in the first anger of the imposition of a candidate from London.